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Events

• January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
• January 5 - The Wiz, a new version of the classic The Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.
• January 6 - Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin fans cause an estimated $30,000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden. The fans had been waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert. The fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. Boston Mayor Kevin White cancels the upcoming show.
• The Alice Cooper stage show for Welcome to My Nightmare becomes the largest stage spectacle of the decade.
• January 8 - Three Led Zeppelin concerts at Madison Square Garden sell out in a record four hours.
• January 12 - "The Warner Brothers Music Show" begins a nine city, 18 show tour of Europe. The tour included Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose, and Graham Central Station.
• February 21 - John Lennon releases his Rock 'n' Roll LP, featuring John singing his favorite early rock songs from the 50's. To promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously.
• March 2 - Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to be Paul McCartney and his wife Linda. Linda McCartney is arrested for having six to eight ounces of marijuana in her pocketbook.
• March 22 - In the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, the Dutch group Teach-In win with the song "Ding-A-Dong".
• March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
• Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper's first solo album is released.
• April 3 - Steve Miller is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, and resisting arrest. DiOrio drops the charges the following day.
• April 4 - Minnie Riperton scores a #1 hit single with "Lovin' You".
• April 18 - Alice Cooper's first television special, Welcome to My Nightmare: The Making of a Record Album airs.
• April 24 - Peter Ham, founder of the group Badfinger, is found hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide.
• April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
• May 1 - The Rolling Stones announce their upcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The occasion was guitarist Ronnie Wood's debut with the band.
• May 10 - Stevie Wonder performs before 125,000 people at the Washington Monument as part of Human Kindness Day festivities.
• June 1 - The Rolling Stones open their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• August 9 - Melbourne-based group The Bee Gees begin their mid-70s international comeback when "Jive Talkin'" reaches #1 and goes platinum with sales over 1 million.
• August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of the great Soviet composers, dies.
• August 9 - Renato Carosone's comeback concert after 15-year retirement.
• September 15 - Pink Floyd releases their album Wish You Were Here and is a huge hit.
• October 30 - Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour begins
• November - The Ramones release their debut single, "Blitzkrieg Bop".
• November 6 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
• November 21 - Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one. (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)
• December 25 - Iron Maiden forms

Also in 1975

• John Rutter becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge
• Billy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn McCoo leave the 5th Dimension and start solo careers
• Peter Gabriel leaves British progressive rock group Genesis.
• Camel's classic album, Music Inspired by The Snow Goose, is released.
• The Goodies had five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to Bill Oddie, "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".
• Ramones sign to Sire Records

Bands formed

• The Boomtown Rats
• Firefall
• Pere Ubu
• .38 Special
• Iron Maiden
• Motörhead

Bands disbanded

• Brinsley Schwarz
• Faces
• Faust (reform in 1990)
• The First Edition
• The Guess Who (reform in 1977)
• Hatfield and the North
• Humble Pie (reform in 1979, 1989 and 2001)
• If
• Jo Jo Gunne (reform in 2005)
• McGuinness Flint
• Neu! (reform in 1985)
• Ocean
• Raspberries
• Stealer's Wheel (reform in 2008)
• Wizzard

Albums released

• ABBA - ABBA
• Adventures in Paradise - Minnie Riperton
• Afro-Filipino - Joe Bataan
• Alive! - Kiss
• All the Fun of the Fair - David Essex
• America's Choice - Hot Tuna
• All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
• Another Green World - Brian Eno
• Another Year - Leo Sayer
• Armageddon - Armageddon
• Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
• Bandolier - Budgie
• The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan & The Band
• The Beau Brummels - The Beau Brummels
• Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger
• The Best of Carly Simon - Carly Simon
• The Best of Top of the Pops '75 - Top of the Poppers
• The Best Years of Our Lives - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
• Between the Lines - Janis Ian
• Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
• Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
• Blue Jays - Justin Hayward and John Lodge
• Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead
• Bongo Fury - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention with Captain Beefheart
• Born to Be with You - Dion DiMucci + Produced by Phil Spector
• Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
• Breakaway - Art Garfunkel
• Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny
• Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
• Captured Angel - Dan Fogelberg
• The Car Over the Lake Album - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
• Caress of Steel - Rush
• Chicago VIII - Chicago
• Chocolate City - Parliament
• Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry
• Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
• Commoner's Crown - Steeleye Span
• Crack The Sky - Crack The Sky
• Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
• Das schönste im Leben - Die Flippers
• Deluxe - Harmonia
• Desperate Straights - Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
• Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
• The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! - The Dictators
• Down by the Jetty - Dr. Feelgood
• The Dragon is Dancing - Jimmie Spheeris
• Dreadlocks Dread - Big Youth
• Dreamboat Annie - Heart (in Canada; released in U.S. in 1976)
• Dressed to Kill - Kiss
• E.C. Was Here - Eric Clapton
• Ella and Oscar - Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson
• Equinox - Styx
• An Evening With John Denver - John Denver
• Extra Texture - George Harrison
• Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra
• Family Reunion - The O'Jays
• Fandango! - ZZ Top
• Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
• Fly by Night - Rush
• Fool for the City - Foghat
• Fox - Fox (debut)
• Free Hand - Gentle Giant
• Gorilla - James Taylor
• Greatest Hits - ABBA
• Greatest Hits - Nazareth
• Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
• Half a Love - The Chi-Lites
• Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
• Head On - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• Head over Heels - Poco
• Helen of Troy - John Cale
• High Voltage - AC/DC
• The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
• Hokey Pokey - Richard and Linda Thompson
• Horizon - The Carpenters
• Horses - Patti Smith
• Hotline - The J. Geils Band
• Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter
• In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow
• In the City - Tavares
• In Trance - Scorpions
• Initiation - Todd Rundgren
• It's Only Love - Rita Coolidge
• John Fogerty - John Fogerty
• Journey to Love - Stanley Clarke
• Judith - Judy Collins
• Just Another Way to Say I Love You - Barry White
• Katy Lied - Steely Dan
• The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett
• Landed - Can
• The Last Record Album - Little Feat
• Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
• Let's Take It To The Stage - Funkadelic
• Live! - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Lou Reed Live - Lou Reed
• Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
• Main Course - Bee Gees
• Malpractice - Dr. Feelgood
• Man-Child - Herbie Hancock
• Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
• Masque - Kansas
• Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette - Mel Tormé
• Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
• Michael Bolotin - Michael Bolton
• Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
• Montreux '75 - Ella Fitzgerald
• Mother Focus - Focus
• Mustard - Roy Wood
• Neu! '75 - Neu!
• Newborn - James Gang
• A Night at the Opera - Queen
• Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
• Now - The Dubliners
• Numbers - Cat Stevens
• Nuthin' Fancy - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• On the Level - Status Quo
• One of These Nights - Eagles
• One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
• Once Upon a Star - Bay City Rollers
• Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
• The Original Soundtrack - 10cc
• Outlaws - The Outlaws
• Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
• Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris
• Playing Possum - Carly Simon
• Pour Down Like Silver - Richard and Linda Thompson
• Pre-Creedence - The Golliwogs
• Prisoner in Disguise - Linda Ronstadt
• Procol's Ninth - Procol Harum
• Promised Land - Elvis Presley
• Radio-Activity - Kraftwerk
• Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
• Red Octopus - Jefferson Starship
• Return to Fantasy - Uriah Heep
• Rimmel - Francesco de Gregori
• Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
• Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
• Rock of the Westies - Elton John
• Ronnie Drew - Ronnie Drew (solo debut)
• Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
• Rudy's Rock: The Sax That Changed the World - Rudy Pompilli and The Comets
• Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus
• Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard - Robert Wyatt
• Sabotage - Black Sabbath
• Searchin' for a Rainbow - The Marshall Tucker Band
• Shaved Fish - John Lennon
• Siren - Roxy Music
• Slade in Flame - Slade
• Slow Dazzle - John Cale
• Song for America - Kansas
• Stampede - The Doobie Brothers
• Stand Back - April Wine
• Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
• Straight Shooter - Bad Company
• Strung Up - Sweet
• The Sun Collection - Elvis Presley (in the UK, released in the US in 1976 as The Sun Sessions)
• Survival - The O'Jays
• Sweet Deceiver - Kevin Ayers
• The Sweet Singles Album - The Sweet
• Tails of Illusion - Fox
• Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads - IF
• Thank You Baby - The Stylistics
• There's One in Every Crowd - Eric Clapton
• Thirteen Blue Magic Lane - Blue Magic
• This Time We Mean It - REO Speedwagon
• T.N.T. - AC/DC
• Today - Elvis Presley
• Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• Tonight's the Night - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
• Tryin' to Get the Feeling - Barry Manilow
• The Tubes - The Tubes
• Two Sides of the Moon - Keith Moon
• Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - Patrick Sky
• USA - King Crimson
• Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler
• Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney & Wings
• Warrior on the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
• Waves - Jade Warrior
• Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
• The Who by Numbers - The Who
• Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame - Kris Kristofferson
• Wind on the Water - Crosby & Nash
• Windsong - John Denver
• Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
• Wouldn't You Like It? - Bay City Rollers
• Yesterdays - Yes
• Young Americans - David Bowie
• Zuma - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1975.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	The Sweet	Fox on the Run	1975		Australia 1 of 1975, Germany 1 - Mar 1975, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1976, UK 2 - Mar 1975, Canada 2 - Nov 1975, Holland 2 - Apr 1975, Norway 2 - Apr 1975, South Africa 2 of 1975, Austria 3 - May 1975, Switzerland 3 - May 1975, France 4 - May 1975, US BB 5 - Nov 1975, Sweden (alt) 10 - Nov 1975, Germany 24 of the 1970s, RYM 24 of 1975, US CashBox 63 of 1976, Scrobulate 64 of glam rock, OzNet 535
2	ABBA	SOS	1975		France 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - Jan 1976, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Aug 1976, Holland 2 - Jun 1975, Austria 2 - Sep 1975, Norway 2 - Oct 1975, Switzerland 3 - Aug 1975, UK 6 - Sep 1975, Italy 7 of 1976, South Africa 8 of 1975, US BB 15 - Oct 1975, US BB 15 of 1975, RYM 15 of 1975, Canada 16 - Oct 1975, Australia 16 of 1976, POP 21 of 1975, Germany 36 of the 1970s, 71 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 1175
3	George Baker Selection	Paloma Blanca	1975		Holland 1 - Mar 1975, Sweden (alt) 1 - Nov 1975, Austria 1 - Jul 1975, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1975, Norway 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - May 1975, Germany 4 of the 1970s, Canada 5 - Jan 1976, South Africa 6 of 1975, UK 10 - Sep 1975, Australia 11 of 1975, US BB 26 - Jan 1976, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1975, Italy 44 of 1975
4	10cc	I'm Not in Love	1975		UK 1 - May 1975, France 1 - Jun 1975, Éire 1 - Jul 1975, US BB 2 - Jun 1975, Canada 2 - Jun 1975, Record World 3 - 1975, Holland 5 - Jun 1975, Norway 6 - Aug 1975, RYM 7 of 1975, Switzerland 8 - Aug 1975, Germany 9 - Aug 1975, Scrobulate 12 of 70s, US CashBox 24 of 1975, Europe 25 of the 1970s, Poland 37 - Mar 1995, Italy 96 of 1975, Belgium 176 of all time, Acclaimed 421
5	KC & the Sunshine Band	That's the Way (I Like It)	1975		US BB 1 - Nov 1975, Record World 1 - 1975, Canada 1 - Nov 1975, Holland 1 - Oct 1975, Sweden (alt) 3 - Nov 1975, POP 3 of 1975, UK 4 - Aug 1975, US BB 4 of 1975, Norway 5 - Nov 1975, Germany 25 - Nov 1975, RYM 44 of 1975, Scrobulate 44 of disco, US CashBox 49 of 1975, Italy 67 of 1976, OzNet 110, RIAA 303, Acclaimed 1119

Chronological table of U.S. and UK Number One Hit singles

note: best sellers of the year are bold

Other significant singles

• "#9 Dream" - John Lennon
• "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" - Helen Reddy
• "All By Myself" - Eric Carmen
• "All My Friends Are Getting Married" - Skyhooks
• "Amie" - Pure Prairie League
• "At Seventeen" - Janis Ian
• "Autobahn" - Kraftwerk
• "Baby Please Don't Go" - AC/DC
• "Back in the Night" - Dr. Feelgood
• "Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
• "The Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet
• "Black Friday" - Steely Dan
• "Black Superman Muhammed Ali" - Johnny Wakelin
• "Blue Guitar" - Justin Hayward and John Lodge
• "Boogie on Reggae Woman" - Stevie Wonder
• "Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
• "The Boys Are Back in Town" - Thin Lizzy
• "Calypso" - John Denver
• "Can I Sit Next to You Girl" - AC/DC
• "Can't Get It Out of My Head" - Electric Light Orchestra
• "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You" - William Shakespeare
• "The Carpet Crawlers" - Genesis
• "Cavalry" - Daryl Braithwaite
• "Chevy Van" - Sammy Johns
• "Convoy" - C. W. McCall
• "Could It Be Magic" - Barry Manilow
• "Curiosity Killed the Cat" - Little River Band
• "Cut the Cake" - Average White Band
• "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." - Billy Connolly
• "Daisy Jane" - America
• "Dance With Me" - Orleans
• "Department of Youth" - Alice Cooper
• "Ding-A-Dong" - Teach-In
• "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" - Sugarloaf
• "Dreamer" - Supertramp
• "Dynomite, Part 1" - Bazuka
• "Ego Is Not a Dirty Word" - Skyhooks
• "Eighteen With a Bullet" - Pete Wingfield
• "Emma" - Hot Chocolate
• "Evil Woman" - Electric Light Orchestra
• "Express" - B. T. Express
• "Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
• "Feelings" - Morris Albert
• "Fight the Power (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers
• "Fly Away" - John Denver
• "Fox on the Run" - Sweet
• "Freedom" - Sherbet
• "Funky Gibbon" - The Goodies
• "Funky Moped" - Jasper Carrott
• "Get Dancin'" - Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
• "Golden Years" - David Bowie
• "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" - Bad Company
• "Have a Cigar" - Pink Floyd
• "Hey You" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• "High Voltage" - AC/DC
• "Hijack" - Herbie Mann
• "Hold Back the Night" - The Trammps
• "Hold On To Love" - Peter Skellern
• "Horror Movie" - Skyhooks
• "How Does It Feel" - Slade
• "How Long?" - Ace
• "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" - Pointer Sisters
• "I Am Love" - The Jackson 5
• "I Believe In Father Christmas" - Greg Lake
• "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" - ABBA
• "I Love Music" - The O'Jays
• "I Only Have Eyes For You" - Art Garfunkel
• "I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
• "If You Think You Know How To Love Me" - Smokie
• "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc
• "In Dulci Jubilo/On Horseback" - Mike Oldfield
• "It's a Long Way to the Top" - AC/DC
• "It's a Miracle" - Barry Manilow
• "It's Been So Long" - George McCrae
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Eric Clapton
• "Kometenmelodie 2" - Kraftwerk
• "Lady" - Styx
• "The Last Farewell" - Roger Whittaker
• "Let the Music Play" - Barry White
• "Life... Is For Living" - Sherbet
• "Listen To What The Man Said" - Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Lonely People" - America
• "Long Tall Glasses" - Leo Sayer
• "Love Hurts" - Jim Capaldi
• "Love Hurts" - Nazareth
• "L-O-V-E (Love)" - Al Green
• "Love Is the Drug" - Roxy Music
• "Love Me, Love My Dog" - Peter Shelley
• "Love Rollercoaster" - The Ohio Players
• "Love to Love You Baby" - Donna Summer
• "Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Harris
• "Low Rider" - War
• "Lyin' Eyes" - Eagles
• "Magic" - Pilot
• "Mamma Mia" - ABBA
• "Man on the Silver Mountain" - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
• "Matter of Time" - Sherbet
• "Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester
• "Million Dollar Riff" - Skyhooks
• "Miracles" - Jefferson Starship
• "Mr. Jaws" - Dickie Goodman
• "Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean)" - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
• "My Little Town" - Simon & Garfunkel
• "Never Can Say Goodbye" - Gloria Gaynor
• "The Newcastle Song" - Bob Hudson
• "Nightingale" - Carole King
• "Nights on Broadway" - Bee Gees
• "No No Song" - Ringo Starr
• "No Woman No Cry" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• "Now I'm Here" - Queen
• "Old Days" - Chicago
• "Once Bitten Twice Shy" - Ian Hunter
• "Once You Get Started" - Rufus
• "Only Women Bleed" - Alice Cooper
• "Only Yesterday" - The Carpenters
• "Our Day Will Come" - Frankie Valli
• "Out on the Floor" - Dobie Gray
• "Paloma Blanca" - George Baker Selection
• "Please Mr. Please" - Olivia Newton-John
• "Real Man" - Todd Rundgren
• "Remember What I Told You to Forget" - Tavares
• "Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
• "Rock and Roll All Nite" - KISS
• "Rockin' All Over the World" - John Fogerty
• "Rockin' Chair" - Gwen McCrae
• "Rocky" - Austin Roberts
• "Roll on Down the Highway" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• "Roll Over Lay Down" - Status Quo
• "Run Joey Run" - David Geddes
• "Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
• "Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Scotch on the Rocks" - Band of the Black Watch
• "Send in the Clowns" - Judy Collins
• "Shame, Shame, Shame" - Shirley & Company
• "Shaving Cream" - Benny Bell
• "She Does It Right" - Dr. Feelgood
• "Sing a Song" - Earth, Wind & Fire
• "Sky High" - Jigsaw
• "Slow Ride" - Foghat
• "The Snake" - Al Wilson
• "Solitaire" - The Carpenters
• "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - Elton John
• "SOS" - ABBA
• "Soul Stripper" - AC/DC
• "Spirit in the Night" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• "Squeeze Box" - The Who
• "Stand by Me" - John Lennon
• "Strange Magic" - Electric Light Orchestra
• "Summer Love" - Sherbet
• "Summertime City" - Mike Batt with the New Edition
• "Super Natural Thing" - Ben E. King
• "Swearin' To God" - Frankie Valli
• "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
• "Sweet Surrender" - John Denver
• "Sweet Thing" - Rufus
• "Tangled Up in Blue" - Bob Dylan
• "That's the Way (I Like It)" - KC and the Sunshine Band
• "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" - Diana Ross
• "There Goes Another Love Song" - The Outlaws
• "There Goes My First Love" - The Drifters
• "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" - The Spinners
• "Third Rate Romance" - Amazing Rhythm Aces
• "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" - Natalie Cole
• "Too Much Rock 'N' Roll" - Rabbit!
• "Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King
• "Up in a Puff of Smoke" - Polly Brown
• "Venus and Mars/Rockshow" - Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Walk Away From Love" - David Ruffin
• "Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
• "Walking in Rhythm" - The Blackbyrds
• "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" - Freddy Fender
• "The Way I Want to Touch You" - Captain & Tennille
• "The Way We Were" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
• "Welcome to the Machine" - Pink Floyd
• "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - Esther Phillips
• "What Am I Gonna Do With You?" - Barry White
• "(What's the Word?) Johannesburg" - Gil Scott-Heron
• "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - Roy Harper
• "When Will I Be Loved" - Linda Ronstadt
• "Who Loves You" - The Four Seasons
• "Why Can't We Be Friends" - War
• "Wildfire" - Michael Murphey
• "W*O*L*D" - Harry Chapin
• "You Are So Beautiful" - Joe Cocker
• "You Sexy Thing" - Hot Chocolate
• "Young Americans" - David Bowie
• "You're My Best Friend" - Queen

Published popular music

• "And All That Jazz" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander. Introduced by Chita Rivera in the musical Chicago
• "Anytime (I'll Be There)"     w.m. Paul Anka
• "At Seventeen" w.m. Janis Ian
• "Calypso"     w.m. John Denver
• "I'm Not in Love"     w.m. Graham Keith Gouldman & Eric Michael Stewart
• "I'm Sorry"     w.m. John Denver
• "Love Will Keep Us Together"     w.m. Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield
• "Mamma Mia"     w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus
• "Movin' On Up" w.m. Jeff Barry and Ja'Net DuBois, theme from the TV series The Jeffersons
• "New York State of Mind" w.m. Billy Joel
• "One"     w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
• "Rockin' All Over the World" w.m. John C. Fogerty
• "Wasted Days Wasted Nights"     w.m. Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan
• "The Way I Want To Touch You"     w.m. Toni Tennille
• "What I Did For Love"     w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
• "You"     w.m. Tom Snow

Classical music

• Samuel Adler - Symphony No. 5, We are the Echoes
• Osvaldas Balakauskas - Sonata of the Mountains
• Claude Bolling and Jean Pierre Rampal - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
• Mario Davidovsky - Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim for soprano, two tenors, bass soli and chamber ensemble
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Ellipse II
  • Siglied
• Theo Loevendie - Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, Incantations
• Witold Lutosławski - Les Espaces du Sommeil
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis
• Alexander Vustin - The Word
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Viola Sonata - his final work

Opera

• John Rutter - Bang!

Musical theatre

• Chicago - Broadway production
• A Chorus Line (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban) - Broadway production
• A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim) - London production
• Dance With Me - Broadway Production
• The Wiz - Broadway production
• Pacific Overtures - Broadway Production

Musical films

• Funny Girl
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Tommy

Births

• January 2 - Doug Robb, Hoobastank
• January 3 - Thomas Bangalter, Daft Punk
• January 13 - Jason King, radio DJ
• January 12 - Melanie Chisholm, Spice Girls
• January 28 - Lee Latchford-Evans, Steps
• February 1 - Big Boi, OutKast
• February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, singer
• February 5 - Adam Carson, AFI
• February 7 - Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit
• February 17 - Wish Bone, rapper
• February 20 - Brian Littrell, The Backstreet Boys
• February 23 - Robert Lopez, composer and lyricist
• March 10 - Jerry Horton, Papa Roach
• March 17 - Justin Hawkins, The Darkness
• March 25
  • Melanie Blatt, All Saints
  • Stacy Ferguson, Black Eyed Peas
• April 10 - Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional
• April 26 - Jose Pasillas, Incubus
• April 26 - Joey Jordison, Slipknot
• May 3 - Maksim Mrvica, pianist
• May 8 - Enrique Iglesias, singer
• May 18 - Jack Johnson
• May 25 - Lauryn Hill, The Fugees
• May 27 - André 3000, OutKast
• May 29 - Melanie Brown, singer Spice Girls
• June 4 - Russell Brand, Actor/Comedian
• June 8 - Emm Gryner, singer-songwriter
• July 2 - Erik Ohlsson, Millencolin
• July 6 - 50 Cent, rapper
• July 9 - Jack White, The White Stripes
• July 12 - Tracie Spencer, singer and actress
• July 18 - Daron Malakian, System of a Down
• July 25 - Håvard Ellefsen, Mortiis
• August 7 - Gaahl, black metal vocalist
• September 1 - Omar Rodríguez-López, At the drive-in, The Mars Volta
• September 8 - Richard Hughes, Keane
• September 9 - Michael Bublé, big band singer
• September 11 - Brad Fischetti, LFO
• September 16 - Shannon Noll, singer
• September 17 - Constantine Maroulis, Pray for the Soul of Betty
• September 22 - Mystikal, rapper
• October 9 - Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• November 1 - Bo Bice, singer
• November 5 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Steps
• November 6 - Mike Herrera, MxPx
• November 14
  • Travis Barker, blink-182
  • Faye Tozer, Steps
• November 20
  • Dierks Bentley, singer-songwriter
  • Davey Havok, AFI
• December 13 - Tom Delonge, blink-182
• December 14 - Justin Furstenfeld, Blue October

Deaths

• January 11 - Max Lorenz, Wagnerian tenor
• January 26 - Toti Dal Monte, operatic soprano
• February 4 - Louis Jordan, jazz musician
• February 10 - Dave Alexander, bassist (The Stooges), 27 (pulmonary edema)
• February 19 - Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
• February 22 - Lionel Tertis, viola player
• March 4 - Cornel Chiriac, Romanian record producer, broadcaster and jazz musician, 33 (murdered)
• March 15 - Sandy Brown, jazz musician
• March 27 - Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Musick
• April 14 - Michael Flanders, lyricist, actor, humorist and singer (Flanders and Swann), 53 (intracranial berry aneurysm )
• April 23 - Peter Ham, singer and songwriter (Badfinger), 27 (suicide)
• May 18 - Leroy Anderson, U.S. composer and conductor
• June 29 - Tim Buckley, singer-songwriter, 28 (drug overdose)
• July 5 - Gilda dalla Rizza, operatic soprano
• July 14 - Zutty Singleton, U.S. jazz drummer
• July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, Country Music Hall of Fame singer, 47 (stroke)
• August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer, 68 (heart attack)
• September 5 - Bill Sprouse, Jr., Christian singer and songwriter, 26 (heart attack)
• October 30 - John Scott Trotter, U.S. arranger and conductor
• December 14 - Mongezi Feza, jazz trumpeter and flautist, 30 (pneumonia)
• December 17
  • Noble Sissle, U.S. bandleader and singer
  • Hound Dog Taylor, blues musician
• December 24
  • Bernard Herrmann, composer
  • Tilly Losch, dancer and actress
• December 25 - Julio Cueva, trumpeter, bandleader and composer
• date unknown - Patrick Kelly, Irish folk fiddler

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1975

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1975

Leeds International Piano Competition

• Dimitri Alexeev